Outgoing Attorney General Amos Wako has said Parliament should not ask for an extension of the period needed to implement all the crucial Bills before August 26. This comes as the Constitution Implementation Commission chaired by Charles Nyachae aksed for 30 more days to review the Public Finance Management Bill.
Nyachae has written the AG asking him to move a motion in Parliament requesting the extension. But Wako, whose 20-year reign as AG comes to an end in a week’s time, said the government must meet the deadline before August 26.
“No one should ask for any extension. That is not even in my vocabulary,” said Wako. He said he is keen to see all the laws that were supposed to be implemented within a year after promulgation implemented.
The finance Bill has been a thorn in the flesh for cabinet with Treasury and Local Government ministers and officials having been called to President Kibaki’s Harambee House offices where Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga tried to solve the stalemate that has seen the two ministries differ on financing the devolved government structure. Wako said he would push the government into implementing the constitution even after he leaves office.
The ever-smiling AG also defended his two-decade long tenure saying he initiated most of the laws that are contained in the current constitution. Speaking to lawyers last Friday, Wako said most of the laws are a result of the 17 task forces that were formed under him since his appointment in May 13, 1991.
The AG, whose reign saw the country transit from a one-party state to a multiparty democracy, dismissed his critics who accused him of protecting the government over the years. He said the committee of experts that drafted the constitution borrowed a lot from the task forces which he initiated from 1993.
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